Policies on prevention.

A Comparative Review on National Alcohol Prevention Policies in Different Selected Countries

Alcohol, with its impact on both communicable and non-communicable diseases, is considered as the third global public health priority. Alcohol ranked third among causes of ill health and premature death, and ranked second in terms of cost among all the substances of abuse, after tobacco, even though nearly half the world’s population drinks alcohol. In most countries, where alcohol is considere...

Policies to support obesity prevention for children: a focus on of early childhood policies.

Policies at many levels may help to shape environments that promote healthy weight and prevent obesity. We present policies to support obesity prevention for young children. We highlight policy Sand environmental systems change examples in the areas of promoting breastfeeding and providing healthy affordable food and information about food in community and child care settings and promoting phys...

Prevention and the elderly: appropriate policies.

Smart food policies for obesity prevention.

Prevention of obesity requires policies that work. In this Series paper, we propose a new way to understand how food policies could be made to work more effectively for obesity prevention. Our approach draws on evidence from a range of disciplines (psychology, economics, and public health nutrition) to develop a theory of change to understand how food policies work. We focus on one of the key d...

Adoption of obesity prevention policies and practices

Despite significant investment in many countries, the extent of schools’ adoption of obesity prevention policies and practices has not been widely reported. The aims of this article are to describe Australian schools’ adoption of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices over an 8-year period and to determine if their adoption varies according to schools’ size, geographic or s...